README.md

MultiXML

Lots of Ruby libraries utilize XML parsing in some form, and everyone has their
favorite XML library. In order to best support multiple XML parsers and
libraries, multi_xml is a general-purpose swappable XML backend
library. You use it like so:

The parser setter takes either a symbol or a class (to allow for custom XML parsers) that
responds to .parse at the class level.

MultiXML tries to have intelligent defaulting. That is, if you have any of the supported parsers
already loaded, it will utilize them before attempting to load any. When loading, libraries are
ordered by speed: first LibXML, then Nokogiri, then REXML.

We use the GitHub issue tracker
to track bugs and features. Before submitting a bug report or feature request,
check to make sure it hasn't already been submitted. You can indicate support
for an existing issuse by voting it up. When submitting a bug report, please
include a Gist that includes a stack trace and any
details that may be necessary to reproduce the bug, including your gem version,
Ruby version, and operating system. Ideally, a bug report should include a pull
request with failing specs.

If something doesn't work on one of these interpreters, it should be considered
a bug.

This library may inadvertently work (or seem to work) on other Ruby
implementations, however support will only be provided for the versions listed
above.

If you would like this library to support another Ruby version, you may
volunteer to be a maintainer. Being a maintainer entails making sure all tests
run and pass on that implementation. When something breaks on your
implementation, you will be personally responsible for providing patches in a
timely fashion. If critical issues for a particular implementation exist at the
time of a major release, support for that Ruby version may be dropped.